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Our Executive Committee has called an Extraordinary General Meeting with notices being issued by our Strata Manager where they want us to vote to approve two important projects, one being a big budget job. It’s to do with landscaping and parking and worth about 70 grand, which is all we’ve been told. Plans for this came with the notice and agenda but no quotes or any indication of costs at all.

I phoned the Strata Manager and he says he doesn’t have any quotes and the Executive Committee are keeping the cost details to themselves and will provide them at the meeting. 

The problem with that is, our meetings are nearly always badly attended and the clique controls things by proxies of non-attendee, apathetic owners. So they will have the meeting stacked and the project will most likely get approved. 

We are a block of 30 units and a bit run-down; the work needs to be done but I feel things should be more above-board. I feel quotes should have been sent out with the agenda as the big money involved at this ‘Extraordinary’ meeting would have certainly piqued owners’ interests and they would be more likely to want to be involved.

What should I do, please? I’m not really the type to knock on doors or phone people I don’t know even if I had their details. Should I, for example, write a stern letter to the Strata Manager and Committee expressing my feelings and threaten to take them to the Office of Fair Trading or The Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal or something, if the spending and project is approved in dubious circumstances?

 

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